Our favorite part about our story is how we both believe we were being drawn together by an "invisible tether" that connected us our entire lives, just waiting for the right moment to have us meet. Ellen and I were both born in the Midwest, she in Minnesota, I in Iowa. We moved to Tennessee around the same time in our lives, she to Memphis, I to Knoxville. We both went to college in Southern California, she to SDSU, I to USC. Finally, we both moved to Scottsdale for work opportunities around the same time. Our entire lives, despite moving all around the country, we were never more than a few hundred miles from each other. We were ships passing in the night for twenty years but were destined to meet and fall in love. - Cole Graham